Alternating between the fragile present and the lingering past with a shocker of an ending, The Poison Tree is a brilliant suspense debut that will appeal to readers of Kate Atkinson, Donna Tartt, and Tana French. She will do whatever it takes to protect her family and keep her secret. When old ghosts come back to destroy the life it has taken Karen a decade to build, she has everything to lose. But Biba and Rex have a complicated family history-one of abandonment, suicide, and crippling guilt-and Karen's summer of freedom is about to end in blood. Karen meets exotic, flamboyant Biba and, spellbound, she moves into the crumbling mansion Biba shares with her enigmatic brother, Rex.
Naïvely, Karen assumes her newfound happiness will last forever. With its hip London backdrop and expert pacing, Erin Kelly’s masterful debut, The Poison Tree, delivers all the way through to its shocker of an ending. She begins a relationship with Biba's enigmatic and protective older brother, Rex, and falls into a blissful rhythm of sex, alcohol, and endless summer nights. Flash back to the sultry summer in 1990s London when Karen, a straight-A student on the verge of college graduation, first meets the exotic, flamboyant Biba and joins her louche life in a crumbling mansion in Highgate. This taut psychological thriller begins when Karen and her nine-year- old daughter, Alice, pick up Rex from a ten-year stint in prison for murder.
Unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend for another girl and abandoned by so-called friends, she is feeling isolated and betrayed. Check out The Poison Tree, eBook, by Kelly, Erin. Erin Kelly’s impressive debut novel, The Poison Tree, tells the tale of seemingly prim and straight-A language student Karen Clarke who has just finished her final year at university in London. From an incredible new voice in psychological suspense, a novel about the secrets that remain after a final bohemian summer of excess turns deadly. The Poison Tree The Poison Tree, eBook A Novel by Kelly, Erin.
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